back. So, we should go forward with that same team since we have done well and hopefully we will continue to do well.” Since Colangelo and Krzyzewski
teamed up in 2006, USA National Teams have compiled a spectacular 62-1 record over the seven years, and claimed top honors in four of five FIBA and FIBA Americas competitions. USA Basketball initiated its historic
men’s national team program in 2005 and under Krzyzewski’s coaching, the USA Basketball National Team program during the three-year period between 2006 and 2008 compiled a striking 36-1 overall win-loss record, and just as importantly reestablished the USA National Team and its members as posi- tive ambassadors for the United States and the sport. The USA squad culminated
the 2005-08 quadrennium by fin- ishing 8-0 to reclaim the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the USA’s first gold in a major international competition since 2000. The USA National Team also won gold at the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship with a 10-0 record to qualify the U.S. men for the 2008 Olympic Games. In the program’s first year, the U.S. captured the bronze medal with an 8-1 record at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan. With Colangelo and
Krzyzewski returning to lead the USA Basketball National Team for 2009-12, the national program compiled a perfect 26-0 win-loss record and won gold medals at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2012 London Olympics. Inducted into the Naismith
2012 Olympian Anthony Davis and USA Basketball National Team head coach Mike Krzyzewski catch up during the 2013 USA National Team mini-camp.
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and the U.S. Military Academy Sports Hall of Fame in 2009, Krzyzewski has a remarkable record of achievement at Duke University, while also boasting of extensive international experience. Heading into the 2013-14 season,
Krzyzewski owned a dazzling 957-297 career record and a remarkable 76.3 winning percentage in his 38 years of collegiate coaching. In 33 seasons at the Durham campus, he has logged a spectacular record of 884-238 for a
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second most by any coach in NCAA his- tory, trailing only legendary UCLA men- tor John Wooden by one. Krzyzewski’s 82 NCAA victories stand as the all-time NCAA record, and his 107 NCAA Tournament games is an NCAA all-time best. Owning an amazing 76.6 winning percentage in NCAA Tournament games, he ranks only behind legend John Wooden (47-10 / .825 winning percent- age) in all-time winning percentage (minimum of 40 NCAA games), while ranking highest among active coaches. Duke teams under Krzyzewski have
earned 29 NCAA Tournament bids, including 18 consecutive; claimed 12 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regu-
striking 78.8 winning percentage. He currently ranks first all-time
among NCAA Division I men’s coaches in career victories. Selected the National Collegiate
Coach of the Year 12 times in eight dif- ferent seasons, Coach K has averaged 26.8 wins per season during his 33-year career at Duke and posted 13 30-win seasons, including 30 or more victories in 10 of the past 16 years. Krzyzewski's 13 30-win seasons are the most in NCAA Division I basketball history. Under Krzyzewski, Duke has cap-
tured four national championships (1991, 1992, 2001 and 2010) which lists him tied for second for the most titles in NCAA Division I history. He has directed teams to 11 Final Fours, which ranks tied for
lar season and 13 ACC Tournament championships; compiled 884 total victories, 349 ACC regular season wins and 82 NCAA Tournament victories. Krzyzewski attended the U.S.
Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and while there lettered three years in basketball (1967, 1968 and 1969) and was captain of Army’s 1969 NIT fourth place finishing team. He directed service teams for three years and followed that up as head coach of the U.S. Military Academy Prep School in Fort Belvoir, Va., for two years. In 1974 he resigned from the Army
having attained the rank of Captain. When Krzyzewski was just 26, Bob Knight, his former coach at Army, hired him as a graduate assistant at Indiana University. That 1975 IU squad posted an 18-0 Big Ten Conference mark and an overall 31-1 record.
Krzyzewski spent five years
(1975-76 through 1979-80) building the West Point program and led the Cadets to one NIT berth, one Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) playoff appearance and a five-year
record of 73-59 (.553 winning per- centage).
Making his first appearance on
a USA bench in 1979, Krzyzewski has now manned the sidelines for the United States off and on for 35 years. In that time, he has done it all. Since 1979 he has been involved as a coach with 13 USA teams and has helped lead the U.S. to nine gold medals, two silver medals and two
bronze medals. All told, USA teams with Coach K a part of their coaching staff have compiled a 112-7 overall mark for an incredible 94.1 winning percentage. As a head coach of nine USA teams, he has logged an 81-7 mark for a stellar 92.0 winning percentage. Krzyzewski is the only USA
Basketball men's coach to have won gold at the Olympics and the FIBA World Championship, while also possessing an NCAA Championship. In 2012 he became only the second basketball coach ever to lead U.S. teams to back-to-back Olympic gold medals (Henry Iba won Olympic championships in 1964 and 1968).
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